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On Sept.11, American Legion Post 69 held a ceremony at the Veterans Memorial Building commemorating the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania that left more than 2,900 people dead and the World Trade Center towers destroyed, known as 9/11.
“I remember waking up, watching everybody running out of the building,” Veterans Memorial Building manager Maria Spandri said, “first responders running in and never coming out.”
Spandri, a veteran, said she gets discouraged at the thought that people get so caught up in their everyday lives that they may not remember the nearly 3,000 people who died that day.
“I was shocked,” she said, “because I didn’t think it could affect our people here in our country. I didn’t think war could come to our land. I think it’s important not to forget this.”
Veterans Services Administrator Shari Stevenson remembered where she was on 9/11. Someone called her, she said, and told her a plane flew into the World Trade Center.
“I turned on the news and woke up my kids,” Stevenson said. “I had them watch the incident, and then the second plane went into the building.”
She said she knew we were under attack.
“9/11 is one of those situations when you remember where you were,” she said, “just as when John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot. People just remember.”
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